Regarding market share within the upper middle-income group, cigarettes decreased from 98.9% to 90.7% over the 15 years, while cigars/ cigarillos went from 0.6% to 6.8% (Supplementary file Figure 1 B)
Ability to communicate verbally with customers and co-workers to process orders both over the phone and in person
There, the company has the technical set-up readily available for producing redried threshed lamina, hand strips, straight-laid leaf, tangled leaf, butted straight-laid leaf, and butted tangled leaf and, as Kumar insists, any other type of packing required by the customer. The company also deals in reconstituted tobacco filament but plans to shift to sheet to meet prevailing export demand
"George Washington, the British tobacco trade, and economic opportunity in prerevolutionary Virginia"